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Sept. 13, 1927. 42516 GODEFROY-RODOLPHE LUGINBUHL RAILWAY GUIDE Filed May 22, 1925 I Wanna W01 abfpjjmqwuzz Patented Sept. 13, 1927.

GODEFROY-RODOLPHE LUGINBUHL, 'OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND.

RAILWAY GUIDE.

Application filed my 22, 1925, Serial No. 32,135, and. in Switzerland This invention relates to a railway-guide provided with a diagrammatic table or index showing the various lines of railway communication, each line on the diagram leading to a particular station, designated by its name, and branching oif'from at least one station which' is taken as the head station, the end of each branching or radiating line pointing towards the page of the ra1ll way-guide upon which is the time-table desired.

In order that the invention may be fully understood and readily carried out, one form of the railway-guide according to theinvention is described hereinafter, by way of example, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

In this drawing:

Figure 1 shows the railway-guide closed,

and

' Figure 2 shows it open at the page of the directing table or index.

In the form of construction shown in the drawing the railway-guide is preferably constructed in book or pamphlet form and is provided with a thumb index notch 1 pref- V erably upon the edge of the cover orfirst page of the railway-guide, by means of which notch the guide may be opened immediately to the diagrammatic directing "table in the form of a schematic map or plan and situated preferably on the central double page of the book or pamphlet forming the guide.

In the drawing the map or plan shows,

' by means of lines bearing the names of stations, a diagram or plan of a local railway network, the stat-ions being arranged to substantially correspond to their geographical example, bemg taken as centre and the lines to At the end of and corresponding with each positions, the town of Lausanne, in this,

line of the directing table, avthumb index notch 3 is cut out in the edge of the pages of the railway-guide to enable the guide to be opened at the page upon which are printed the time tables and the information concerning the railway-traiiic upon the corresponding main and secondary lines represented by the said lines of the diagram.

The directing table is not limited to serving as an index for the railway-lines but may be also completed with reference lines the ends of which terminate at corresponding thumb index notches, so that all the information it may include may be found out from the railway-guide by means of this device. c

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim 1s:

1. A railway guide comprising a number of pages, a double page provided with a schematic map showing the names of various stations arranged to substantially correspond to their geographical positions and also provided' with a number of lines indicative of railway communication lines radiating from at least one station and passing through some of the other stations and branching from the remaining stations, the remaining pages showing data of the various railway lines, the outer end of each line pointing towards the edge of the double page and the edges of the pages being thumb-notched at the end of each line as far as the corresponding data page.

2. A railwayguide comprising a book containing a number of pages, a central double page provided with a schematic map showing the names of various stations arranged to substantially correspond to their geographical positions and also provided with a number of lines indicative of railway communication lines radiating from at least one station and passing through some of the other stations and branching from the remaining stations, the remaining pages showing data of the various railway lines, the

outer end of each line pointing to ards the edge of the double page and the edges of the pages being t11u111bn0tched at the end of each line as far as the corresponding data 5 page, the pages preceding said double page beinq' further thumh-n0tehed as far as the far slde of the double page, and the front;

face of the Front page being provided with :1 n'mrkinp; lending to said Inst n'lentiol'led thumb-notch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GODEFROY-RODOLPHE LUGINBUHL. 

